Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)

The Cambridge/etc. prof joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to discuss his book On Truth (2018). What is truth? Simon's view synthesizes deflationism and pragmatism to avoid relativism by fixing on the domain-specific procedures we actually engage in to establish the truth of a claim, whether in ethics, science, art, or whatever. A gift of clarity after two episodes threshing through the jungles of analytic philosophy! Continued on part 2, or get the full, unbroken Citizen Edition, as well as Wes's discussion on Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. The post Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.